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Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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